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Massive Attack celebrate Mezzanine's 20th anniversary by preserving it in DNA
- i_feel_great 9y agoBlue Lines was better
- chrisseaton 9y agoHow can you justify Mezzanine as their breakthrough album? What about the wide popular appeal and critical success of Blue Lines and Protection before it?
- escapologybb 9y agoI was genuinely surprised When they did something is cool is this chose to do it with Mezzanine, Blue Lines is probably one of the best albums ever written in my not very humble opinion. That was truly groundbreaking.
- icc97 9y agoIt depends on which part of the world you're from. I'd have thought that anyone from the UK would be saying Blue Lines.
- cranjice 9y agoPresumably because Mezzanine was thir first album to chart number 1
- chrisseaton 9y agoI think it charted at number 1... because they had already broken through with the previous albums, so enough people knew about it and were anticipating it.
- NKosmatos 9y agoBeing a foreign student in the UK during the 90s I loved the whole trip hop movement (Portishead & Tricky included) and I have to add my vote for Blue Lines and Protection. They might think that Mezzanine is their best album, but I beg to differ (along with many others).
- ng12 9y agoMezzanine is the only album of theirs I could identify by sight/sound/name. Seems like a reasonable assertion to me.
- fsiefken 9y ago15M would be listenable with a state of the art audio codec like Opus, but not transparent. 15Mb for 63.5 minutes would translate to 32 Kbit/s. Which is pretty low, but I'm going to compress it with Opus and listen to it. Apparently there have been some improvements on low bitrate speech coding which would make it good for saving podcasts or text to speech files. I used to save some space on my PocketPC by re-compressing podcasts to wma acelp.net in the previous century.
- thrillgore 9y agoGrowing up, Mezzanine and The Fragile were the two albums that shaped my musical tastes growing up. As cool as this is, I don't see how its practical, even for an archival purpose.
- rayascott 9y agoI’m a bit disappointed they didn’t inject the DNA strands back into their own bodies.